You are robbing your kids from great experiences. One of the benifits of sci-fi/fantacy books is that it opens a kids mind to new ideas that they didn't think of. A lot of the sci-fi can found to have drawn from reality--usually in the form of cultures.
I grew up with sci-fi. My father was a bug sci-fi fan. I saw all the Star Wars movies in the theaters (both old and new). One of the older Sci-fi (1800s) predicted the fax machine before it was ever conceived.
Sci-fi also plays out things that could happen and presents new ideas. In some was sci-fi/fantacy is needed in society. Without dreamers, a society can become stagnent(sp?). It is the dreamers who pave the way to the future. Sci-fi/fantacy helps to open a child's mind to these new possibilites. Sci-fi/Fantacy helps them view a new future that contain new devices and technology to improve (or hurt) "modern" life. Some great warnings can be found in sci-fi/fantasy.
By banning your schild from reading modern sci-fi/fantacy, you are hurting your child in the long run. You allow them to read King Arthur and Camelot? Which versions of the legends? They have change over time. Those stories, the Arthurian legends, are Fantacy for a different era. In some ways you are like the person who refuses to use a car because it is new.
These are but a few of the befenits of sci-fi/fantacy. The problems you complain about only occur if you allow your children to become so immursed that they lose touch with reality. That problem is not limited to sci-fi/fantacy. Do you not allow your children to read Sherloc Holmes? They want to copy the vialians. My point is that a child can become so involved into something that it can distort there precetions of reality. To limit your children's reading of sci-fi/fantacy becuase of what they might do if it takes over there life is ridiculous! The same thing can happen with other things.
If you do your job as a parent to insure they get a wide exposure, and not just one type, you won't have a problem. A lot of those kids that got involved in the miscief that they did had other problems that were not addressed by there parents. They sought escape form there problems in D&D instead of dealing with them, and that is what you need to provent. That can happen with any liturature--even King Arthur!
I do have a problem with that statement. Someone has to provide end users with email privilages. In 99% of the cases you can say that someone provides you with access to the internet and email. The only exception I can think of is intranet email.
People, a lot of this is already done in the US. It all depends on what they mean by logging phone calls. What I assume it means is simply person Phone Number A called Phone Number B on this date at this time and it lasted this long. If this is the case, take a look at your phone bill. Phone companies do that already. I believe they keep these records for a very long time.
As for email, companies and schools monitor email, and they have a right to do so if you are using their computers and services. A lot of companies have backups of email. These backups stay around for a long time while. It helps them defend themselves in lawsuits.
As for monitoring internet traffic, a lot of companies, and schools , do that already. I don't know the extent in which the monitor it and record it, but it already exists is some capacity.
The only new concpet for the US would be putting it in one location--if that is what they intend to do. This doesn't surprise me.
While that may be true, I liked the Matrix, but Unbreakable was just ok. Unbreakable was ok, but it seemed to be lacking. Maybe it's just me but superhero plots should have some action. The action was virtual not there! It seems to move too slow. It was like they took what a normal superhero type movie would do in a half hour and dragged it out for a whole 2.5 hours!!! It lacked any real "meat". I read comic books still (although not as much lately), and I wouldn't call this a comic book plot.
I didn't watch it at all this time around. I really don't like hearing someone say "so-and-so did good in the tryouts and did you know...". I could do with out all the crappy talk.
Also, I hate this idea that the Olympics can be shown only by one network. That is stupid!!! When you have more than one network, you can see different events, and you are not limited to what one network thinks you should see.
The worst part is I heard they were looking to make the Olympics a pay-per-view event! I hope they don't do that. Then I will never watch the Olympics! I have had enough with the greedy media!
You forget that a lot of people subscribe to the idea that Microsoft knows best. If you consider that, then you see people will actually think it is a good idea. I knew this was comming, but I didn't think it would be so soon. Next you will see Office.Net along with the idea that Microsoft will gradually fade out the old distribution model all together. In other words, you'd have to buy a subscription. Eventually, you'd have to use Office.net only, and then they'd change the subscription to a per use subscription.
You may ask, "how would they market it"? Simple, sell it on the idea that you'd only pay for what you use, and you'd always have th newest version automatically. That is where they are heading, and I don't like it!
I don't knw how closely you could match the colors exactly from one monitor to another. You could get close, but it may not be possible to show some colors on some monitors.
It all depends on what the monitor is using to generate the colors (the actual phosphur(sp?)). If you know the coordinates of the phosphurs, you could plot them on a 2d map of the visible light spectrum. The coordinates would define all the possible colors you could display with that monitor.
I believe the same could be done with the colors used in printing, but i am not sure. You may run into problems with the borders colors of the printer and monitor. In other words you coudl end up with colors that can't be generated on the printer but can be generated on the monitor, and you could also end up with colors that are not on the monitor but exist on the printer.
If you were to have a program to do matching you'd want to test the border colors of a given triangle. You'd want to test the border colors for both a printer and a monitor. I would think these would be printer/monitor specific.
Actually, that article was not very informing. The three pyramids that are in a line with the third slighty off center are directly lined up with orion's belt. If you taken in a couple of the other pyramids they line up with other parts of the pyramids. There have been a couple of shows that have mentioned this on either the Learning Channel or the Discovery Channel.
Another show was looking at several of the ancient structures built by these ancient people and the astrological significance. After analising the data. A year kept coming up something like 10500 bc(I am not 100% sure that was the year) that all of the structures line up with there astronomical equivilants.
Even in the Americas evidence has been found that points to ancient civilations having great knowledge of Astronomy. THe was one civilation that set up a type of calender to measure the Suns movement around the sky, and the same civilation also tracked the moons movement across the sky which is something like 8 years.
Whether you choose to believe it or not, astonomy was very important to ancient civilizations. That doesn't mean aliens travel to Earth. It just means these civilations valued the information they got from Astronomy.
Further, the computers are the property of the schools. Thus, they would be subjected to the similar laws gorverning computers used by employees at work. Thus, it would be legal to collected data on student usage, and legal to view email.
Why would you have to run a program like that? Who would have the power to Audit a PC? In the case of a personal user at home, I would think they would need to have a search warrent.
I wonder if this would apply to my Undergraduate Thesis. Anyone know? I doubt it would because I wasn't working for the school. I was just a student.
In author's case, the problem would lie in if he/she is actually working as a professor at the school while working on his/her PhD. If he/she is working for the school, then I would say it belongs to the school because it could be considered work for hire, but if not, then I am not I sure. I would say no. IANAL.
Another question, what happens if you are a professor at one college and you are working on your (Master's or PhD.) at another college? Which school would own the "Intellectual Property"?
I think too many questions could be raised in the case where the person is not working as a professor. I would be interested in here what happens eventually tho.
You won't be very happy when Microsoft steals your code because you're using Visual Studio 7.0 on their ".Net". You won't be happy when you see the bill on the "per use charges" that will eventually come when Microsoft doesn't ship software anymore and you have to use their ".Net" service to run you programs!
you obviously haven't looked too deeply into Microsofts.Net stuff. Have you? That is the way they are heading with all their products. The only exception I see them having is the OS. The more I look into ".Net" the less I like it.
For one, the computer industry has a hard time convincing the layperson who buy a OTC (over the counter) package of software that they don't own it, and they only have a liscences to use it. Do you really think you could get these people to except not having a copy on their machine?
You'd have to "log in" through the internet. If your internet is down because of phone/cable being out, you can't do anythign with your computer! Most of your programs you use as a service, and they don't reside on you hard drive.
Second, their are privacy concerns. What is to stop the "host" company from making copies of what you're doing. Even if your data is stored locally, they can still copy your data keep it in a database with everybody else's data and start analising your spending trends and other such things. You'd get more junk mail and spam.
What about Microsoft? What's to stop them from stealing the code for their competitors product? They'll obviously be one of the hosts. Visual Studio 7 is done that way. Let's say your working on a hot new word processor for the latest version of Microsoft's OS. What is to stop them from monitoring your progress, and stealing the best parts of your work? Let's face it. Companies, such as Microsoft, would abuse this "revolution".
Now, let's look at the cost. More than likely, it would be a per use cost for long period of time. So lets say all software use cost $.05 per minute because that's the best way to charge your customer and make the most profit inthe beginning. (Remember, right now Microsoft has the market share to force people to do things their way.) Let's say you use 240 minutes a month. 240*$.05 = $12 a month. Ok not bad, but consider 12 months * $12 = $144 a year. If the soft would cost $80 OTC, you just paid $64 more dollars than you would have if you bought the software. How many of us only use their computer for 4 hours a month?
The phone companies did a leasing scheme a long time ago. The allowed people who couldn't afford to buy a phone to lease one. I saw a show recently where they actually interview someone who was stuck in this type of a deal. It turns out, this person has spent a LOT more than if they would have just bought the phone.
Lastly, this ideas seems to be a step backwards to me. I keep think of the first days of computers when school (and the rich) who could afford a terminal (or terminals) who "rent" time from those that could actually afford to purchase a computer.
The only reason companies would go to this idea is because there is great potential for making money. You reduce you costs. You don't have to worry about piracy, and no more costs related to packaging and shipping the product. It also give them new sources of revenue if they store data on there end from the customer. They coudl do data mining and sell the results.
In the end, I think this is only good for the companies. It isn't very benificial to the end user, but on the good side, it might make people search alternative Operating Systems (and software) that are set up this way--particularly to Linux if we get our buts in gear and start making more progress.
The problem lies with the first pick. The first pick will ALWAYS be a guess. On an 8*8 grid with 10 mines you have a 15.625%(10/64*100) chance of hitting a mine. Their will always be a certain amount of randomness about the some guess. I know there are other times you'd have to guess.
>Hee hee hee... well now, that in itself is open to debate isn't it?
Actually, that is a good point. If an encryption can easily be decrypted, then it can't be an effective access control. That means you could decrypt it, and if you read the wording closely in the other sections, the same "that effectively..." appears.
So if the means of control has been circumvented, then it is no longer effective. Moreover, the same "that effectively..." would define the basis of the parent statement in the outline. IE:
Consider the this:
"1201(a)(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that- "
If the means of control has been circumvented, then it is nolonger an effective means of control. Thus, the above quote (1201(a)(2)) would no longer hold. Further, since the means of control was circumvented, then the above quote (1201(a)(2)) would not hold to the person(s) who circumvented the means of control becase it was NOT an effective means of control.
IANAL, but it seems to me there is a hole there. Possibly a BIG HOLE.
Let's look at the good things done in the 80s under Republican leadership. First, the fall of communism in Europe & Russia. Germany is 1 country again. Did the Democratics accomplish this? Nope! The Iron Curtain(sp?) fell, and in case you are not old enough to remember that term, the Iron Curtain was sort of a "line, wall, or curtain" that seperated western Europe form the Communist Eastern Europe. The split could be symbolised by the wall that ran through Berlin Germany. The city itself was torn in two. One part free and Democratic, and the other was communist. So, for the Republicans, we can say they won the Cold War. As a result, we are the number one country in the world, and the only country that could possibly take us on in an old fassion war (not this terrorism stuff) is China. Their biggest strength is the number people in China.
Then we have the countless technogies that have spilled over into the general public fromthe military during and after the Cold War.
These are just a couple of things the Republicans did in the Eighties that was good.
What did the Democrats do in the 90s with 80% of the decade they controled? Turned their back on Taiwan! Taiwan was our ally! We should have supported them, but we didn't! Instead, the Democratics sold their SOULS to China for money for the party! We turned out back on China.
Look at the Middle East. We have again turned our backs on an ally. We have basically turned our backs on Isreal! Isreal has been the one to give in. I am surprised our Allies trust us!
The last reason why I would vote for Bush is because I want my money to stay where it belongs...in MY pockets, and NOT in Al Gores!
People.. people... people... Look at the original source of the article (MacWeek). That should say it all. I don't expect the Authors of such magazines to know, understand, or even be able to explain what the term OS (or any other CS term) means. Need I say more? MacWeek...
I saw a special on how it was done ( or the special covered it). One person sat down and figured what did what and wrote it down. The person then closed the book, and the person then handed it off to another person to implement. I thought it was pretty cool becuase there was two people involved IBM lost.
Another point we would be in trouble form other counties when we tried to reverse engineer their technology. They could just sue us. THat would have put a damper on some of the cold war. I can see the headlines now. "Russia sues U.S. over copyright infringement!"
All this stuff against reverse engineer is scaring me. It will hold be technology. The simplest case being the cost of the product would go down when you have clones. THe IBM PC is an example of that. Now, how far would we be if the price wouldn't have gone down on PCs? Would we even have Linux? Or would we still be doing timesharing on major computers?
Where would we be without reverse engineering? We wouldn't have PC Clones! Reverse engineering is one of the key factors respouncible for lowering the price of computers, and place them in so many houses!!!
Not to mention if you switch to digital lines in your house/apartment, you'll lose the benifit of the phone compay supplying the power for the phone. They haven't found a way to send power through a digital line, so if your power goes out, so does your phone. Besides, with DSL technology, why upgrade? I am happy as long as they connect to my appartment with the good old standard copper wire.
How can the author forget the most import example of sucessful reverse engineer in the computer industry? The reverse engineering of the the IBM PC! A lot of people wouldn't have PC without that. It was the clones that drove down the prices initially. Without that MACs, Amigas, or any other expensive computer could have been the front runner, and with out the clones, some companies might still be in the darkages doing things the hard way because of cost. That was one of the most important events of the last millenium!!!
I remember a couple of years ago seeing something like this that was not so specialized. It don't remember exactly what it was called. Basically it contained multiple CPU layed out in a grid pattern, and switches were used to direct the flow through the chip. It could allow mapping from several entry points allowing more than one process to be going at a time. Anyone else remember what I am talking about? I can't seem to find the information anymore.
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You are robbing your kids from great experiences. One of the benifits of sci-fi/fantacy books is that it opens a kids mind to new ideas that they didn't think of. A lot of the sci-fi can found to have drawn from reality--usually in the form of cultures.
I grew up with sci-fi. My father was a bug sci-fi fan. I saw all the Star Wars movies in the theaters (both old and new). One of the older Sci-fi (1800s) predicted the fax machine before it was ever conceived.
Sci-fi also plays out things that could happen and presents new ideas. In some was sci-fi/fantacy is needed in society. Without dreamers, a society can become stagnent(sp?). It is the dreamers who pave the way to the future. Sci-fi/fantacy helps to open a child's mind to these new possibilites. Sci-fi/Fantacy helps them view a new future that contain new devices and technology to improve (or hurt) "modern" life. Some great warnings can be found in sci-fi/fantasy.
By banning your schild from reading modern sci-fi/fantacy, you are hurting your child in the long run. You allow them to read King Arthur and Camelot? Which versions of the legends? They have change over time. Those stories, the Arthurian legends, are Fantacy for a different era. In some ways you are like the person who refuses to use a car because it is new.
These are but a few of the befenits of sci-fi/fantacy. The problems you complain about only occur if you allow your children to become so immursed that they lose touch with reality. That problem is not limited to sci-fi/fantacy. Do you not allow your children to read Sherloc Holmes? They want to copy the vialians. My point is that a child can become so involved into something that it can distort there precetions of reality. To limit your children's reading of sci-fi/fantacy becuase of what they might do if it takes over there life is ridiculous! The same thing can happen with other things.
If you do your job as a parent to insure they get a wide exposure, and not just one type, you won't have a problem. A lot of those kids that got involved in the miscief that they did had other problems that were not addressed by there parents. They sought escape form there problems in D&D instead of dealing with them, and that is what you need to provent. That can happen with any liturature--even King Arthur!
>Not all email goes via an ISP.
I do have a problem with that statement. Someone has to provide end users with email privilages. In 99% of the cases you can say that someone provides you with access to the internet and email. The only exception I can think of is intranet email.
People, a lot of this is already done in the US. It all depends on what they mean by logging phone calls. What I assume it means is simply person Phone Number A called Phone Number B on this date at this time and it lasted this long. If this is the case, take a look at your phone bill. Phone companies do that already. I believe they keep these records for a very long time.
As for email, companies and schools monitor email, and they have a right to do so if you are using their computers and services. A lot of companies have backups of email. These backups stay around for a long time while. It helps them defend themselves in lawsuits.
As for monitoring internet traffic, a lot of companies, and schools , do that already. I don't know the extent in which the monitor it and record it, but it already exists is some capacity.
The only new concpet for the US would be putting it in one location--if that is what they intend to do. This doesn't surprise me.
While that may be true, I liked the Matrix, but Unbreakable was just ok. Unbreakable was ok, but it seemed to be lacking. Maybe it's just me but superhero plots should have some action. The action was virtual not there! It seems to move too slow. It was like they took what a normal superhero type movie would do in a half hour and dragged it out for a whole 2.5 hours!!! It lacked any real "meat". I read comic books still (although not as much lately), and I wouldn't call this a comic book plot.
I didn't watch it at all this time around. I really don't like hearing someone say "so-and-so did good in the tryouts and did you know...". I could do with out all the crappy talk.
Also, I hate this idea that the Olympics can be shown only by one network. That is stupid!!! When you have more than one network, you can see different events, and you are not limited to what one network thinks you should see.
The worst part is I heard they were looking to make the Olympics a pay-per-view event! I hope they don't do that. Then I will never watch the Olympics! I have had enough with the greedy media!
You forget that a lot of people subscribe to the idea that Microsoft knows best. If you consider that, then you see people will actually think it is a good idea. I knew this was comming, but I didn't think it would be so soon. Next you will see Office.Net along with the idea that Microsoft will gradually fade out the old distribution model all together. In other words, you'd have to buy a subscription. Eventually, you'd have to use Office.net only, and then they'd change the subscription to a per use subscription.
You may ask, "how would they market it"? Simple, sell it on the idea that you'd only pay for what you use, and you'd always have th newest version automatically. That is where they are heading, and I don't like it!
I don't knw how closely you could match the colors exactly from one monitor to another. You could get close, but it may not be possible to show some colors on some monitors.
It all depends on what the monitor is using to generate the colors (the actual phosphur(sp?)). If you know the coordinates of the phosphurs, you could plot them on a 2d map of the visible light spectrum. The coordinates would define all the possible colors you could display with that monitor.
I believe the same could be done with the colors used in printing, but i am not sure. You may run into problems with the borders colors of the printer and monitor. In other words you coudl end up with colors that can't be generated on the printer but can be generated on the monitor, and you could also end up with colors that are not on the monitor but exist on the printer.
If you were to have a program to do matching you'd want to test the border colors of a given triangle. You'd want to test the border colors for both a printer and a monitor. I would think these would be printer/monitor specific.
Actually, that article was not very informing. The three pyramids that are in a line with the third slighty off center are directly lined up with orion's belt. If you taken in a couple of the other pyramids they line up with other parts of the pyramids. There have been a couple of shows that have mentioned this on either the Learning Channel or the Discovery Channel.
Another show was looking at several of the ancient structures built by these ancient people and the astrological significance. After analising the data. A year kept coming up something like 10500 bc(I am not 100% sure that was the year) that all of the structures line up with there astronomical equivilants.
Even in the Americas evidence has been found that points to ancient civilations having great knowledge of Astronomy. THe was one civilation that set up a type of calender to measure the Suns movement around the sky, and the same civilation also tracked the moons movement across the sky which is something like 8 years.
Whether you choose to believe it or not, astonomy was very important to ancient civilizations. That doesn't mean aliens travel to Earth. It just means these civilations valued the information they got from Astronomy.
Further, the computers are the property of the schools. Thus, they would be subjected to the similar laws gorverning computers used by employees at work. Thus, it would be legal to collected data on student usage, and legal to view email.
Why would you have to run a program like that? Who would have the power to Audit a PC? In the case of a personal user at home, I would think they would need to have a search warrent.
I wonder if this would apply to my Undergraduate Thesis. Anyone know? I doubt it would because I wasn't working for the school. I was just a student.
In author's case, the problem would lie in if he/she is actually working as a professor at the school while working on his/her PhD. If he/she is working for the school, then I would say it belongs to the school because it could be considered work for hire, but if not, then I am not I sure. I would say no. IANAL.
Another question, what happens if you are a professor at one college and you are working on your (Master's or PhD.) at another college? Which school would own the "Intellectual Property"?
I think too many questions could be raised in the case where the person is not working as a professor. I would be interested in here what happens eventually tho.
I don't think it is fair to say that people who voted for Buchanan meant to vote for Gore. In that case, they really should do a revote.
You won't be very happy when Microsoft steals your code because you're using Visual Studio 7.0 on their ".Net". You won't be happy when you see the bill on the "per use charges" that will eventually come when Microsoft doesn't ship software anymore and you have to use their ".Net" service to run you programs!
you obviously haven't looked too deeply into Microsofts .Net stuff. Have you? That is the way they are heading with all their products. The only exception I see them having is the OS. The more I look into ".Net" the less I like it.
For one, the computer industry has a hard time convincing the layperson who buy a OTC (over the counter) package of software that they don't own it, and they only have a liscences to use it. Do you really think you could get these people to except not having a copy on their machine?
You'd have to "log in" through the internet. If your internet is down because of phone/cable being out, you can't do anythign with your computer! Most of your programs you use as a service, and they don't reside on you hard drive.
Second, their are privacy concerns. What is to stop the "host" company from making copies of what you're doing. Even if your data is stored locally, they can still copy your data keep it in a database with everybody else's data and start analising your spending trends and other such things. You'd get more junk mail and spam.
What about Microsoft? What's to stop them from stealing the code for their competitors product? They'll obviously be one of the hosts. Visual Studio 7 is done that way. Let's say your working on a hot new word processor for the latest version of Microsoft's OS. What is to stop them from monitoring your progress, and stealing the best parts of your work? Let's face it. Companies, such as Microsoft, would abuse this "revolution".
Now, let's look at the cost. More than likely, it would be a per use cost for long period of time. So lets say all software use cost $.05 per minute because that's the best way to charge your customer and make the most profit inthe beginning. (Remember, right now Microsoft has the market share to force people to do things their way.) Let's say you use 240 minutes a month. 240*$.05 = $12 a month. Ok not bad, but consider 12 months * $12 = $144 a year. If the soft would cost $80 OTC, you just paid $64 more dollars than you would have if you bought the software. How many of us only use their computer for 4 hours a month?
The phone companies did a leasing scheme a long time ago. The allowed people who couldn't afford to buy a phone to lease one. I saw a show recently where they actually interview someone who was stuck in this type of a deal. It turns out, this person has spent a LOT more than if they would have just bought the phone.
Lastly, this ideas seems to be a step backwards to me. I keep think of the first days of computers when school (and the rich) who could afford a terminal (or terminals) who "rent" time from those that could actually afford to purchase a computer.
The only reason companies would go to this idea is because there is great potential for making money. You reduce you costs. You don't have to worry about piracy, and no more costs related to packaging and shipping the product. It also give them new sources of revenue if they store data on there end from the customer. They coudl do data mining and sell the results.
In the end, I think this is only good for the companies. It isn't very benificial to the end user, but on the good side, it might make people search alternative Operating Systems (and software) that are set up this way--particularly to Linux if we get our buts in gear and start making more progress.
The problem lies with the first pick. The first pick will ALWAYS be a guess. On an 8*8 grid with 10 mines you have a 15.625%(10/64*100) chance of hitting a mine. Their will always be a certain amount of randomness about the some guess. I know there are other times you'd have to guess.
That is really PAGE 2 of the article! The link in the /. article is the PAGE 1. Understand?
>Hee hee hee... well now, that in itself is open to debate isn't it?
..." appears.
..." would define the basis of the parent statement in the outline. IE:
Actually, that is a good point. If an encryption can easily be decrypted, then it can't be an effective access control. That means you could decrypt it, and if you read the wording closely in the other sections, the same "that effectively
So if the means of control has been circumvented, then it is no longer effective. Moreover, the same "that effectively
Consider the this:
"1201(a)(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that- "
If the means of control has been circumvented, then it is nolonger an effective means of control. Thus, the above quote (1201(a)(2)) would no longer hold. Further, since the means of control was circumvented, then the above quote (1201(a)(2)) would not hold to the person(s) who circumvented the means of control becase it was NOT an effective means of control.
IANAL, but it seems to me there is a hole there. Possibly a BIG HOLE.
What do you people think?
Let's look at the good things done in the 80s under Republican leadership. First, the fall of communism in Europe & Russia. Germany is 1 country again. Did the Democratics accomplish this? Nope! The Iron Curtain(sp?) fell, and in case you are not old enough to remember that term, the Iron Curtain was sort of a "line, wall, or curtain" that seperated western Europe form the Communist Eastern Europe. The split could be symbolised by the wall that ran through Berlin Germany. The city itself was torn in two. One part free and Democratic, and the other was communist. So, for the Republicans, we can say they won the Cold War. As a result, we are the number one country in the world, and the only country that could possibly take us on in an old fassion war (not this terrorism stuff) is China. Their biggest strength is the number people in China.
Then we have the countless technogies that have spilled over into the general public fromthe military during and after the Cold War.
These are just a couple of things the Republicans did in the Eighties that was good.
What did the Democrats do in the 90s with 80% of the decade they controled? Turned their back on Taiwan! Taiwan was our ally! We should have supported them, but we didn't! Instead, the Democratics sold their SOULS to China for money for the party! We turned out back on China.
Look at the Middle East. We have again turned our backs on an ally. We have basically turned our backs on Isreal! Isreal has been the one to give in. I am surprised our Allies trust us!
The last reason why I would vote for Bush is because I want my money to stay where it belongs...in MY pockets, and NOT in Al Gores!
People.. people... people... Look at the original source of the article (MacWeek). That should say it all. I don't expect the Authors of such magazines to know, understand, or even be able to explain what the term OS (or any other CS term) means. Need I say more? MacWeek...
I saw a special on how it was done ( or the special covered it). One person sat down and figured what did what and wrote it down. The person then closed the book, and the person then handed it off to another person to implement. I thought it was pretty cool becuase there was two people involved IBM lost.
Another point we would be in trouble form other counties when we tried to reverse engineer their technology. They could just sue us. THat would have put a damper on some of the cold war. I can see the headlines now. "Russia sues U.S. over copyright infringement!"
All this stuff against reverse engineer is scaring me. It will hold be technology. The simplest case being the cost of the product would go down when you have clones. THe IBM PC is an example of that. Now, how far would we be if the price wouldn't have gone down on PCs? Would we even have Linux? Or would we still be doing timesharing on major computers?
Where would we be without reverse engineering? We wouldn't have PC Clones! Reverse engineering is one of the key factors respouncible for lowering the price of computers, and place them in so many houses!!!
Not to mention if you switch to digital lines in your house/apartment, you'll lose the benifit of the phone compay supplying the power for the phone. They haven't found a way to send power through a digital line, so if your power goes out, so does your phone. Besides, with DSL technology, why upgrade? I am happy as long as they connect to my appartment with the good old standard copper wire.
Stoop so low? Remember World War I and World War II? This is actually a step up for them! They are almost normal.
How can the author forget the most import example of sucessful reverse engineer in the computer industry? The reverse engineering of the the IBM PC! A lot of people wouldn't have PC without that. It was the clones that drove down the prices initially. Without that MACs, Amigas, or any other expensive computer could have been the front runner, and with out the clones, some companies might still be in the darkages doing things the hard way because of cost. That was one of the most important events of the last millenium!!!
I remember a couple of years ago seeing something like this that was not so specialized. It don't remember exactly what it was called. Basically it contained multiple CPU layed out in a grid pattern, and switches were used to direct the flow through the chip. It could allow mapping from several entry points allowing more than one process to be going at a time. Anyone else remember what I am talking about? I can't seem to find the information anymore.